Phillip Riese invests alongside a variety of Venture Capital and Private Equity firms globally with a focus on disruptive financial services and/or advanced analytics. Phillip also accepts equity in return for active board or advisory positions in the company in these sectors.

Tracey Riese invests alongside a variety of Seed Capital and Angel Investors focused on early stage business-to-business, big data, marketing and media companies. She is a managing director of Golden Seeds, an early stage investment group focused on women-led companies. Tracey also accepts equity in return for active board or advisory positions in companies in these sectors.

Our critical investment or involvement criteria are: The company must be or could become a passionate personal interest, solving an interesting problem; the executive team and board must be outstanding and enjoyable to work with; the company and the team must operate at the highest ethical levels; there is a reasonable probability that Phillip or Tracey can add value to the strategic and tactical operation of the company and the CEO will seek their input; and the company is expected to make outstanding returns over time.

Beyond RIESE & OTHERS:

Phillip, from time to time, provides personalized consultative and advisory services to CEOs and their teams to produce positive performance changes in very short time frames. In these cases he hand-assembles teams to focus on developing and executing market share and revenue growth strategies and brings resources to bear to generate rapid expense and cash flow savings.

Tracey leads TG Riese& (www.tgriese.com) which, since 1994, has provided strategy and branding advisory services to some of the world’s best-known and most respected public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations. She works with the CEOs, boards and senior leadership teams to help establish, sustain or restore a leadership brand; evolve their business model and brand to meet emerging market demands; create markets that didn't previously exist, and position themselves to win in a changing landscape with uncertain dynamics.